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Scenes of people going about their everyday activities in Arabian city of Dubai, and environs, in 1944
Arabian City of Dubai, and environs during period of British rule (before creation of United Arab Emirates). Waterfront scene dominated by Ali Bin Abi Talib mosque in Dubai . (This is number 3, of three mosques by that name in the area, and is located on the creek in the old Bur Dubai part of the city.) Numerous boats and merchants clog the Dubai creek. Merchants unload their wares from boats. Trucks and businessmen line the wharf near the creek. Pottery is being carefully unloaded from a boat, one piece at a time and passed to a man who places them in a push cart. An oasis with palm trees A woman scoops a bucket of water.Two men are seen baking Arabian flat bread over fires. A boy washes himself in a pond.
On 8 December, 1944, U.S. soldiers test a new type rocket launcher at Viareggio, Italy, during World War II
U.S. soldiers insert charges into rockets and then load them into a multi-barrel rocket launcher mounted on a 37mm gun carriage, set up on the shore at Viareggio, Italy in World War 2. They load the 4.5 mm rockets into the firing tubes. Next the rockets are seen being fired by a soldier from a remote position. (Ordnance and Artillery Sections of the U.S. 5th Army developed this rocket launcher.)
Americans voting in U.S. cities during 1944 Presidential election; Roosevelt defeats Dewey.
Presidential elections in the United States. Americans voting in various cities. People lined up outside building to vote. Buildings along the sides of the street. Acts and figures pasted on a board. People reading the news. President Roosevelt casting his vote at the Town Hall in Hyde Park, New York. Tabulation of the figure. Crowd at Times Square follow the returns. A board reads: 'National Broadcasting Company Election chart'. Announcements of figures on radio. A woman writing the figure on a board. Announcement of results at the Republican National Headquarters. Governor Dewey conceded defeat and President Roosevelt receives congratulations at Hyde Park.
Mao Zedong at his cave house in Yan'an, China in 1944
Mao Zedong emerges from his cave house headquarters at Yan'an, China, followed by an interpreter and John S. Service, of the U.S. State Department, who is smoking a cigarette. They stand in the yard in front of the house, where they are joined by a Western reporter and another person on Mao's staff. Glimpses of participants conversing. Several closeups of Mao Zedong.
Excerpt from film about national elections in the United States. This segment covers election of November 7, 1944, in World War II
Excerpt from film about national elections in the United States. Opening scene show a banner stretched across a downtown street, reading: "Vote Democratic, vote for full employment. Below that are pictured two local candidates and Franklin D. Roosevelt (running for an unprecedented 4th term as President). Underneath, the banner reads:"Conners for Congress.Glimpses of other political signs are shown, on telephone poles, buildings,and automobile windows. Citizens discuss the elections in various places: A man and woman in their living room; workers in a machine shop; men in a diner restaurant; a man and woman at home; a farmer and a delivery man; a housewife speaks to another homemaker over a back fence; a dentist and his patient; school boys; and politicians. Representative Clare Booth Luce speaking. New York Governor, Thomas E. Dewey, at a podium. Vice Presidential candidate Harry Truman about to speak. People gathered in local forums and other political campaign activities. President Roosevelt driving along a city street, on a rainy day, in an open car with Secret Service agents riding on the running boards of his car. Crowds jamming the sidewalks in spite of the weather. Other gatherings of people waving American flags and showing support for their politcal parties and candidates. Philip Murray, President of the CIO Labor Union and AFL Head, William Green. Radio broadcast antenna shown denoting importance of radio for political communications. Harry S. Truman (Democrat), Thomas E. Dewey (Republican) and incumbent President Roosevelt are seen delivering speeches in front of numerous microphones. Various views of many men, women, children, and families gathered around radios listening to radio campaign speeches, in various places, including American soldiers at the front (This election is during World War 2) and Nurses in a hospital. President Roosevelt speaking at a political dinner. Views of people at political party conventions. Next, people are seen calmly walking in and out of polling places. Three members of an election board begin counting votes. After checking, one member telephones the results from their precinct to headquarters. Views of recorded votes being reported by telephone. People using tabulating machines to compile the results. Views of spectators in vote posting centers awaiting the results. Final results being brought to news media for dissemination to the nation. People gathered in Times square, New York, where news is posted in moving lights on the Times building marquee. Others gathered around their radios. Marquee Lights on the Times Building announce the reelection of President Roosevelt.
German Army retreating from Vitebsk , Belarus, in advance of Soviet offensive, June, 1944, World War II
Map highlights Vitebsk region of Belarus. Roaring flames in the city, during World War 2. Refugees with a wooden cart mingle with retreating German infantry walking across a bridge over the Dvina River. A German tank with a huge log fastened to its side as extra protection. It is followed by another tank and three soldiers on a motorcycle and side car. Some infantrymen walk casually but another contingent marches in formation, smiling as they pass the camera. Domes of an orthodox church are seen in the background, as passing soldiers wave to the camera. Smiling German infantrymen walk next to picket fence. Line of refugees in horse-drawn wagons leaving the city. German gunners set up an artillery field piece. View of rail lines and station set ablaze by German troops. Explosions occur along rail line as German sappers detonate charges to destroy tracks. Smoke and haze covers the area. German officer looks through binoculars at smoke from explosion in distance. German soldiers bury Teller land mines along railroad bed. Closeup of a soldier setting mine in place and covering it with patch of grass. German antiaircraft battery set up overlooking Dvina River. Below, German army vehicles cross steel bridge.Sappers destroy another bridge. The Uspenski Cathedral in backgound at confluence of Dvina and Vitba Rivers. A huge explosion sends clouds of black smoke aloft, as German sappers destroy more buildings. A German soldier carrying a Panzerfaust recoiless antitank weapon runs to join another lying prone with an MG 42 light machine gun. More huge demolition explosions. German soldiers ready for combat. Huge fires rage in the city.
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